The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed

A book, published in 1984, which was supposedly the first ever completely written by a computer. Mostly little poems, clearly tweaked by human hand. The software which generated it was called Racter and is still held up as a model of early AI. A sample poem follows:

Which sounds pretty good until you consider that it doesn't mean anything.

The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed
Computer prose and poetry by Racter
A Bizarre and Fantastic Journey into the Mind of a Machine
Illustrations by Joan Hall
Introduction by William Chamberlain
Warner Software Warner Books 1984
ISBN 0-446-38051-2